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40Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.

Mark 12:40

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 35-40)

Here, I. Christ shows the people how weak and defective the scribes were in their preaching, and how unable to solve the difficulties that occurred in the scriptures of the Old Testament, which they undertook to expound. Of this he gives an instance, which is not so fully related here as it was in Matthew. Christ was teaching in the temple : many things he said, which were not written; but notice ...

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